AZ - This Is What I Do Lyrics
(Intro: AZ)Yes, yes, ladies and gentlemenI'll like to thank you for your support, loveNot only to me, but to the whole hip-hop industry itselfWe as a whole, we've been weathering in the StormFrom the start, 30-plus years ago to nowBut uh, like all weapons of hate, we perceiverSo allow me to speak not only for meBut on behalf of the hip-hop coalitionEvery hood, every ghetto across the United States of America(Verse 1: AZ)Yea, as a youngin' I was sittin'- spittin' sponge-in'Just learnin' the life, and Christ second comin'Well mannered and nice, got advice from womenBut when the money get tight, the stomach start grumblin'It was some of then, wasn't all Hammers thenWent in the Benz, it was kingpin and bubblin'We started huddlin', puttin' in, and jugglin'A shear later we straight, no more strugglin'But that was only the startThe love between homey started fallin' apartI guess anything's addictive when it's callin' your heartDeath and incarceration had us all in the darkWe was done, some'll say "we had a beautiful run"And the beauty is skin deep was beneath the slumsI was numb, that was like speakin' in tonguesSo relax, I adapt within a week I was sprungSpoke facts on the track, it's like squeezin' a gunNo more crack, all the boys on my back hearin' "RUN"Yea, I changed & came, all them years, on the stairs G Rap & KaneI felt pain, them beamers still lurkin' my brainBut the ways is the most high is to preserve to explainIt was the fame, that focused me, perfected my gameAnd like that, there's so many others that this rap will remainAnd in exchange, we give fans the force of the reignTo feed, nurture, and breed, and be the voice of the slainIt's a shame, but that real shit come wit the lifeAnd in order to obtain you gotta sacrificeIt's like cuttin' your ***** shorter, don't pass on fightsI'ma tourer, so you know all my facts is rightPlus my Aurora is like used spoilers on the porch at nightSo be polite, just go for them critics that writeThis is Rap, we from the hood, just tryin' to get a sliceSome'll bite, but the most just coast wit iceAnd rock a little chain, get a little brain(Immediately changes to AZ talking)Ha ha-ha ha, yea, hey, it is what it isYou know Rap has no rulesSee my enlightener he-he once told me once said"If there is no devilish-men, then there won't be Godliness""One can't exist without the other"Knaw'mean?, it's like a Doctor is only needed to healAnd he caters to the sick, so the sick must exist, ya heard?A Minister - he only gives sermon to - uh you know -Those seeking for forgiveness - so them sinners must existYou know? it's simple simplistic, ha ha-ha haIt's AZ the GOD - Constantine - Quiet Money for lifeThis is What I Do, I'm here